BEAUFORT — After Union forces took control of Port Royal and Beaufort in 1861, White planters fled, forfeiting much of their property. Suddenly, 10,000 enslaved people were free. Federal ...

During the Civil War, the Union Navy loaded aging whaleships ... In 1577, the French ship “Le Prince” is said to have wrecked in the Port Royal Sound. Spirek’s search for the wreckage ...